Spacebase required around $400k to develop, so it would have been unwise for Indie Fund to go it alone. A $400k game in a stable of $50k-$150k games would make for an imbalanced portfolio, and would mean more risk than we were comfortable with.

So we asked some folks we know if they’d be interested in joining this experiment. Indie Fund ended up putting $75k into this project, and Humble Bundle, Hemisphere Games, make all, AppAbove Games, Adam Saltsman, The Behemoth, Morgan Webb, and Rob Reid put in the rest.

Spacebase DF-9 went into open alpha last month and recouped the entire $400k investment two weeks from that date. 85% of the revenue came in via Steam Early Access, and the other 15% via direct sales by Double Fine.

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SparkTR said:

Going to wait for a more developed version before I jump in, but great news.

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mrdark said:

Upon sharing the news he asked for more money to use on projects that never get finished. In the meantime he'll share some Tweets of him doing random things on the weekday other than working.

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wazoo said:

Kickstarter - early acces - indie funding

this is what we define the content of next gen gaming at least on PC - I am not sure Sony/MS will allows such kind of beta funding to happen

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mrdark said:

Upon sharing the news he asked for more money to use on projects that never get finished. In the meantime he'll share some Tweets of him doing random things on the weekday other than working.

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mrdark said:

Upon sharing the news he asked for more money to use on projects that never get finished. In the meantime he'll share some Tweets of him doing random things on the weekday other than working.

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